{"id":17588,"date":"2020-09-29T18:48:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T16:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/simoneweil-denkkollektiv\/?p=17588"},"modified":"2023-02-24T15:11:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T14:11:17","slug":"book-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/simoneweil-denkkollektiv\/book-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch of &#8216;Effort and Grace&#8217; by Simone Kotva"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"17588\" class=\"elementor elementor-17588\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-14ff887 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"14ff887\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d250729\" data-id=\"d250729\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-19ce8ab elementor-blockquote--skin-quotation elementor-blockquote--button-color-official elementor-widget elementor-widget-blockquote\" data-id=\"19ce8ab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"blockquote.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote class=\"elementor-blockquote\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-blockquote__content\">\n\t\t\t\tFor activity to be passive, it must receive something from beyond itself; it must be in excess of itself. By the spiritual I mean this fact of experience in excess of voluntary effort, of which exercise is a part. This distinction, it seems to me, is crucial. To a large part, the confusion which surrounds spiritual exercise today emerges from a failure to relate the involuntary to the voluntary when it comes to the effort involved in practices such as meditation, attention or prayer. Confusion is exacerbated when exercise is removed from a context originally metaphysical or \u2018religious\u2019. .... Neither a religious nor a secular context saves exercise from becoming, through misuse, utile to regimes of power. Nonetheless, exercise without spirit risks staking its claims wholly on effort; in a word, on power. By contrast, what is conveyed in concepts such as tranquillity, repose and grace are metaphors by means of which the absolute elevations of effort that underwrite every misuse of power might be resisted. Where philosophy, by presenting itself simply as effort, continues to affirm the very category it attempts to avoid, it may be hazardous to reject a spiritual turn that is also cognisant of the \u2018metaphysical\u2019.\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-q-footer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"elementor-blockquote__author\">Simone Kotva, Effort and Grace, pp. 21-22<\/cite>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2479996 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2479996\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ec684b3\" data-id=\"ec684b3\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-838e10e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"838e10e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-15b5eb8\" data-id=\"15b5eb8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d948269 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d948269\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<b>This podcast presents the book launch of Simone Kotva\u2019s new monograph, \u201cEffort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy,\u201d available from Bloomsbury. The launch took place online on September, 2nd, 2020.<\/b>\n\n<b>\nSimone is joined by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.divinity.cam.ac.uk\/directory\/catherine-pickstock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catherine Pickstock<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ciis.edu\/faculty-and-staff-directory\/jacob-sherman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jacob Sherman<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nottingham.ac.uk\/news\/expertiseguide\/humanities\/professor-john-milbank.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Milbank<\/a>. Catherine Pickstock and John Milbank have co-founded the Radical Orthodoxy movement and rank currently as leading theologians worldwide. Jacob Sherman is professor of theology and philosophy at the California Institute of Integral Studies and is a specialist on spirituality and ecology.<\/b>\n<pre><\/pre>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8282015 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8282015\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7a376c5\" data-id=\"7a376c5\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cf65d06 elementor-widget 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elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"482495d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-47bd116\" data-id=\"47bd116\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-03598f0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"03598f0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Book<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c7f8845\" data-id=\"c7f8845\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-cac5271 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"cac5271\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-66bbf13\" data-id=\"66bbf13\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c35021e elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c35021e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhilosophy and theology have long harboured contradictory views on spiritual practice. While philosophy advocates the therapeutic benefits of daily meditation, the theology of grace promotes an ideal of happiness bestowed with little effort. As such, the historical juxtaposition of effort and grace grounding modern spiritual exercise can be seen as the essential tension between the secular and sacred.\n\nIn <i>Effort and Grace<\/i>, Simone Kotva explores an exciting new theory of spiritual endeavour from the tradition of French spiritualist philosophy. Spiritual exercise has largely been studied in relation to ancient philosophy and the Ignatian tradition, yet Kotva&#8217;s new engagement with its more recent forms has alerted her to an understanding of contemplative practice as rife with critical potential\n\nHere, she offers an interdisciplinary text tracing the narrative of spiritual exertion through the work of seminal French thinkers such as Maine de Biran, F\u00e9lix Ravaisson, Henri Bergson, Alain (\u00c9mile Chartier), Simone Weil and Gilles Deleuze. Her findings allow both secular philosophers and theologians to understand how the spiritual life can participate in the contemporary philosophical conversation.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-228601c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"228601c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b32ad51\" data-id=\"b32ad51\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-64cf2fe elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"64cf2fe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e7945b1 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e7945b1\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-bf8363c\" data-id=\"bf8363c\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c6c3b4d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c6c3b4d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Author<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4c3888c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4c3888c\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e0a08d6\" data-id=\"e0a08d6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fc60a13 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fc60a13\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.divinity.cam.ac.uk\/directory\/kotva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simone Kotva<\/a>\u00a0is a research fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where she teaches philosophical theology. She has published articles on French spiritualism, the philosophy of attention, and metaphysics. <em>Effort and Grace<\/em> is her first book.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-75f3c45 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"75f3c45\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-cb248af\" data-id=\"cb248af\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-af6fb62 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"af6fb62\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7f79954 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"7f79954\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">THE Interview<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fed8717 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"fed8717\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft (Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge) speaks to Simone Kotva (Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge) about her new book Effort and Grace. The conversation took place over email and revolves around the relationship between theology and philosophy, what the concept of &#8220;philosophy as a way of life&#8221; is all about, and the significance of French spiritualism, especially the work of Simone Weil.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>RJR:<\/b> Dr Kotva, we are excited to learn about your new book Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy. Your title juxtaposes the effort entailed in philosophical inquiry, with a theology of grace that demands no such achievement from the believer. Can you tell us more about this tension, what it might tell us about the relationship between philosophy and theology, and how and why you are interested to explore it in your work?<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>SK:<\/b> Yes. There is an easiness \u2013 an unconsciousness, even \u2013 to what we call \u201ctruth\u201d or \u201ccertainty\u201d that seems to contradict the willpower it takes to sustain conscious mental effort for long periods of time. You concentrate, but the answers you\u2019re looking for arrive quite independently of your effort. When they do arrive you might very well be distracted, talking about something different, caught up in domestic routines, or even sleeping. One does not arrive at truth; it arrives\u2026is flung at you, is given to you. That\u2019s really the only criterion. When philosophers talk about \u201cknowing\u201d something and having \u201ccertainty\u201d about it without being able to account for how that knowledge was achieved, they are talking about grace (I think Wittgenstein intuits this in Of Certainty). If you\u2019ve ever had the experience of suddenly understanding something previously obscure to you that is now crystal clear, and etched in your perception with a kind of razor sharp precision, yet impossible to account for and quite beyond the pale of language \u2013 that is grace. If you\u2019ve experienced it you will always have a sense for the \u201ctheological,\u201d even if you have never studied theology.\u00a0First of all, I wanted to provide an archaeology of this experience, where philosophy and theology converge and become the same practice. In the 1970s\u00a0Pierre Hadot\u00a0popularised the idea that philosophy was like a \u201cspiritual exercise.\u201d He saw a structural homology between the way ancient philosophers trained their students to prepare to receive a vision of celestial ideas, and the way monastics prepared novices to receive the beatific vision of God. But Hadot tended to interpret this experience as a direct outcome, or even as a constituent part, of the preparatory exercises in question (meditation and introspection). I was fascinated by this oddness in Hadot\u2019s interpretation, which seemed to go against all the ancient sources and certainly against the Christian spiritual exercise tradition Hadot supposedly was invoking. It was peculiarly modern, even Kantian (despite Hadot\u2019s critique of what he saw as the aridity of neo-Kantianism), and I decided to see whether I could trace an alternative approach to spiritual exercise \u2013 and to philosophy as a \u201cway of life\u201d \u2013 that reclaimed the radical anti-individualism that one finds in the spiritual exercise tradition. To me, this was important for two reasons. One was historical: I wanted to get the facts right about what it would mean to practice philosophy as a spiritual exercise, today; I wanted to see if it were possible to think with Hadot without agreeing with his conclusions. The other reason had to do with ethics, with life. If our philosophical practice does not lead us outside of ourselves, does not open us to the outside, then there really is no hope or purpose in what we are doing. Where\u00a0Michel Foucault\u00a0discovered, through Hadot\u2019s work, \u201ctechnologies of the self\u201d that reconstitute the person from within, I discovered in the spiritual exercise tradition also a \u201ctechnology of ecstasy\u201d (I\u2019m borrowing the phrase from\u00a0Mircea Eliade) that leads from the self to the outside.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>R<\/b><span style=\"color: rgba(2, 1, 1, 0.98); letter-spacing: 0px;\"><b>JR:<\/b> Who are the major figures and writers that you look at in your book? How did you come to be interested in the French spiritualist philosophical tradition?<\/span><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>SK:<\/b> My book addresses the work of Pierre Maine de Biran, F\u00e9lix Ravaisson, Henri Bergson, Alain (\u00c9mile Chartier), and Simone Weil; it also touches on the thought of Victor Cousin. I became interested in the French spiritualist tradition when I discovered that it anticipated but also challenged the approach to philosophy popularised by Pierre Hadot. French spiritualism is comparable to German Idealism, especially Schelling\u2019s philosophy, but unlike its German counterpart it draws on early modern Augustinian writers like F\u00e9nelon, Bossuet and Pascal \u2013 the \u201cspirit\u201d in \u201cspiritualism\u201d refers to mind but also to mysticism. Spiritualism carried on a consciously neo-Augustinian way of thinking about philosophy as a spiritual exercise which developed, in particular, a strong critique of individualism \u2013 of the privileging of human effort and of the sort of blind faith in human reason that characterises so much of modern thinking. Spiritualism aims to prepare a person to receive \u2013 rather than achieve \u2013 knowledge; receive it from \u201coutside,\u201d from the more-than-human, through inner work that leaves the mind vulnerable and open to what it cannot know. It\u2019s a tradition that was hugely influential during the nineteenth century (when it was recognised and promoted as a \u201cnational\u201d philosophy) but at the same time it remained, as one would expect of a religious philosophy articulating itself against the backdrop of an increasingly secular intellectual milieu, resolutely minor. Toward the end of the nineteenth century it was feared that spiritualism, with its appeal to mystical ideas like grace, would plunge French philosophy into irrationalism and disrepute. Bergson, for instance, takes a conscious step away from the name and the banner, preferring to call what he does simply \u201cmetaphysics.\u201d Gilles Deleuze followed him in this \u2013 but the inspiration and founding ideas remain the same. This fascinated me. Today, French spiritualism is being studied again, especially by Anglophone scholars. But the focus is rarely on the Augustinian roots of the movement. I cannot help but wonder how much of the praxis of spiritualism \u2013 how much of the technology of ecstasy in question \u2013 is lost in this translation.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>RJR:<\/b> You devote a chapter to Simone Weil, who has long been popular with theologians and philosophers of religion. How does your study contribute to our understanding of Weil, and how do you engage with Weil&#8217;s concept of attention?<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>SK:<\/b> Yes, Simone Weil is a popular figure, but she is also seen as an eccentric thinker and her ideas are often characterised as strange, even a little bit mad. Her concept of \u201cpassive attention\u201d is a case in point. It\u2019s popular among religious writers, poets, literary critics\u2026but philosophers tend to ignore it. Iris Murdoch is an exception. At around the same time that Hadot was comparing philosophy to spiritual exercise, and arguing for a return to philosophy as a practice of contemplation, Murdoch was making a similar argument \u2013 but she drew on Weil, and Weil\u2019s concept of attention, to illustrate what she meant by \u201ccontemplation.\u201d This makes all the difference to her argument: instead of presenting philosophy as an effort to sustain mental activity and remain in communion with truth, Murdoch thinks of it as a letting go of the effort to try to reach for truth \u2013 truth, for Murdoch, happens in moments of spontaneous recognition quite independent of willed effort (I\u2019m thinking especially of Murdoch\u2019s argument in\u00a0The Sovereignty of Good).\u00a0Murdoch\u2019s approach was an important inspiration for what I do in the book. But while Murdoch points to the importance of Weil she does not say all that much about Weil\u2019s thought, and the way she cites Weil tends rather to reinforce the image of Weil as this kind of oracular figure who speaks ex cathedra with no connection to history. And this is frustrating because it makes it difficult to argue, seriously, for the significance of a concept like \u201cpassive attention.\u201d Without the genealogy, without the story of the concept, its logic (however persuasive in itself) can appear rather thin. So I wanted to see if I could change this. It was when researching the context of Weil\u2019s thought that I discovered French spiritualism and the tradition that begins with Maine de Biran, but which stretches back much further, to the French Augustinians and the spiritual exercise tradition.\u00a0What really excited me was the discovery that spiritualist thinkers not only thought extensively about passivity (grace) as an existential category, but that they also \u2013 this is less well known \u2013 considered passivity in relation to attention. Biran in particular was attuned to the fact that when we are really paying attention and concentrating our utmost to focus on an object or idea, our awareness of what we are doing disappears. We become unconscious, as it were, and passive in relation to the object of attention. Readers of Weil will be familiar from this image, which is absolutely central to her idea of attention but which begins as the founding insight, the founding paradox, of spiritualism. Biran writes: \u201cThe \u2018I\u2019 no longer lives, no longer exists for itself: it seems to be one with the ideal, the object of desire which has preceded and brought about this absorption.\u201d Compare that to Simone Weil, in Waiting on God: \u201cAbove all our thought should be empty, waiting, not seeking anything, but ready to receive in its naked truth the object that is to penetrate it.\u201d\u00a0In my book, I read Weil as a very late Biranian thinker. This is my attempt to challenge the interpretation of her as an eccentric thinker disconnected from tradition, from the history of philosophy. In this I have learnt much from scholars in France and Germany, such as\u00a0Emmanuel Gabellieri\u00a0and\u00a0Rolf K\u00fchn, who have argued for Weil\u2019s place in the history of French thought.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>RJR:<\/b> Who do you have in mind as your ideal reader for the book? Is there an ideal reader?<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>SK: <\/b>That\u2019s an interesting question: no, I did not have any one reader in mind, and my book has been read by scholars of Weil and French spiritualism as well as by those interested in \u201cphilosophy as a way of life\u201d more broadly. That being said, my book is at bottom a critique of the perspective of Hadot, and will have an especial appeal to philosophers of religion. But in the first instance those philosophers of religion were Biran, Ravaisson, Bergson, Alain, Weil, rather than my contemporaries. Of course, in the book I write about historical thinkers in the third person, but this is a rhetorical convention; in truth, I was writing to them. That is why Effort and Grace, although it is driven by a concern to narrate a genealogy (and present that genealogy as the basis for a critique), is not intellectual history, strictly speaking. I describe these thinkers, describe their work; but I do so in order to activate their thought, rather than in order to explain it: to think with Biran, with Weil, rather than think about them.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>RJR:<\/b> Tell us something that readers will be surprised to learn about when they read it!<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><b>SK:<\/b> Effort and Grace ends with an epilogue on ecological thinking \u2013 a conclusion that isn\u2019t there in the spiritualist tradition but which I find implicit in the techniques of spiritual exercise at stake. To open oneself to the outside in order to receive what is more-than-human, to be \u201cattentive\u201d to what is not-us\u2026that is a profoundly ecological way of thinking, of acting! It is not, however, an evidently \u201cspiritualist\u201d or even Weilian theme (though there are intimations, certainly, in Weil\u2019s work, of a form of nonhuman understanding \u2013 her comparison of grace to solar energy, and of the plant\u2019s comportment to spiritual attentiveness, being the most obvious one). That epilogue was the result of thinking with, rather than about. At the same time, I think there is an intense fidelity to this approach, since one is attempting (as far as is possible) to engage with what has been said by the thinkers one is interpreting, rather than rely on commentators.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><i>This interview was originally published by\u00a0Divinity Dispatches by the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge<\/i>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4424008 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4424008\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-076841e\" data-id=\"076841e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-83ac9bf elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"83ac9bf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">New contributions:<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-585785a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"585785a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-adb8d53\" data-id=\"adb8d53\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3dc82b9 elementor-grid-3 elementor-grid-tablet-2 elementor-grid-mobile-1 elementor-posts--thumbnail-top elementor-posts--show-avatar elementor-card-shadow-yes elementor-posts__hover-gradient elementor-widget elementor-widget-posts\" data-id=\"3dc82b9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;cards_columns&quot;:&quot;3&quot;,&quot;cards_columns_tablet&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;cards_columns_mobile&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;cards_row_gap&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:35,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;cards_row_gap_tablet&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]},&quot;cards_row_gap_mobile&quot;:{&quot;unit&quot;:&quot;px&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[]}}\" data-widget_type=\"posts.cards\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-posts-container elementor-posts elementor-posts--skin-cards elementor-grid\">\n\t\t\t\t<article class=\"elementor-post elementor-grid-item post-23499 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-allgemein tag--liebe-love tag--literatur-literature tag-body tag-writing infinite-scroll-item no-featured-image-padding\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__card\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__text\">\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-post__title\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/simoneweil-denkkollektiv\/rachel-pafe-berlin-the-miracle-of-love\/\" >\n\t\t\t\tRachel Pafe (Berlin): The Miracle of Love Amidst the Crushes of War: Thinking through The Iliad with Susan Taubes and Simone Weil\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__excerpt\">\n\t\t\t<p>Rachel Pafe is a writer and researcher interested in modern Jewish thought and critical theories of mourning. She is currently doing a joint PhD at Goethe University of Frankfurt and Universit\u00e9 Lille. \u00a0 For more information visit\u00a0Rachel&#8217;s Page. To read the German-version of the article, please click\u00a0here.\u00a0 In her 1956 dissertation on French philosopher-mystic Simone<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t<a class=\"elementor-post__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/simoneweil-denkkollektiv\/rachel-pafe-berlin-the-miracle-of-love\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Rachel Pafe (Berlin): The Miracle of Love Amidst the Crushes of War: Thinking through The Iliad with Susan Taubes and Simone Weil\" tabindex=\"-1\" >\n\t\t\tMehr ...\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__meta-data\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-post-date\">\n\t\t\t1 May 2024\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-post-avatar\">\n\t\t\tNo Comments\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<article class=\"elementor-post elementor-grid-item post-17429 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-texte infinite-scroll-item no-featured-image-padding\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__card\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__text\">\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-post__title\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/simoneweil-denkkollektiv\/marcus-steinweg-berlin\/\" >\n\t\t\t\tMarcus Steinweg (Berlin): &#8220;Notizen zu Simone Weil&#8221;\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__excerpt\">\n\t\t\t<p>Leseschl\u00fcssel Die hier gelisteten \u2013 teils ver\u00f6ffentlichten, teils unver\u00f6ffentlichten \u2013 Notizen von Marcus Steinweg beziehen sich allesamt auf Simone Weil. Die Liste ist offen und wird schrittweise durch neue Notizen erweitert. RIGORISMUS An Simone Weil besticht ihr Rigorismus und ihre Klarheit. Noch wenn sie sich dem Allt\u00e4glichen zuwendet, geht der Vektor ins Nichts. Nie versenkt<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t<a class=\"elementor-post__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/simoneweil-denkkollektiv\/marcus-steinweg-berlin\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Marcus Steinweg (Berlin): &#8220;Notizen zu Simone Weil&#8221;\" tabindex=\"-1\" >\n\t\t\tMehr ...\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__meta-data\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-post-date\">\n\t\t\t28 June 2023\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-post-avatar\">\n\t\t\tNo Comments\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<article class=\"elementor-post elementor-grid-item post-23087 post type-post status-publish format-aside hentry category-texte tag-258 tag--lesen-reading tag--liebe-love tag--literatur-literature tag--loslosen-lassen-detachment tag--m-y-s-t-i-k-m-y-s-t-i-c-i-s-m tag--macht-power tag--martyrerin-tum-martyrdom tag--mathematik-mathematics tag--methode-method tag--mitgefuhl-compassion tag--moral-moral tag--musik-music tag--nachstenliebe-compassion-charity tag--nicht-lesen-non-reading tag--notwendigkiet-necessity tag--p-h-i-l-o-s-o-p-h-i-e-p-h-i-l-o-s-o-p-h-y tag--padagogik-pedagogics tag--passivitat-passivity tag--perfektion-vollendung-perfection tag--physik-physics tag--poesie-poetry tag--progress-werden-progress-becoming tag--r-e-a-l-i-t-a-t-r-e-a-l-i-t-y tag--reinheit-purity tag--religion-religion tag--s-c-h-r-e-i-b-e-n-w-r-i-t-i-n-g tag--sakrament-sacrament tag--schmerz-pain tag--schonheit-beauty tag--schwerkraft-gravity tag--seele-soul tag--selbst-disziplin-self-discipline tag--sklaverei-slavery tag--spirituelle-ubung-spiritual-exercise tag--sprache-language tag--tanz-dance tag--tod-death tag--u-b-e-r-n-a-t-u-r-l-i-c-h-e-s-u-p-e-r-n-a-t-u-r-a-l tag--ubung-training-dressur-training tag--un-endlichkeit-eternity tag--universalitat-universality tag--unmoglichkeit-impossibility tag--unterdruckung-oppression tag--unterwerfen-untergeben-devotion tag--verantwortung-responsibility tag--verstand-reason tag--verwurzelt-rootedness tag--wahrheit-truth tag--warten-waiting tag--wert-value tag--wille-will tag--wissen-knowledge tag--wissenschaft-science tag--wurzel-root tag--zeit-time tag-body tag-immunity tag-limitation tag-proportion-proportion tag-suffering tag-thingification tag-threat tag-writing post_format-post-format-aside infinite-scroll-item no-featured-image-padding\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__card\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__text\">\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-post__title\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/simoneweil-denkkollektiv\/elisabeth-hubmann-geneve-organ-improvisations-in-response-to-simone-weils-les-lutins-du-feu-ca-1921-22\/\" >\n\t\t\t\tElisabeth Hubmann (Gen\u00e8ve): Organ improvisations in response to Simone Weil\u2019s \u201cLes Lutins du feu\u201d (ca. 1921\/22)\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__excerpt\">\n\t\t\t<p>Il dansait, il dansait toujours, le peuple des \u00e2mes candides, des \u00e2mes des enfants qui ne sont pas encore n\u00e9s; attendant leur tour d\u2019\u00eatre des hommes, les lutins se poursuivaient sur les b\u00fbches cr\u00e9pitantes. Simone Weil, Les Lutins du feu, 1921\/22. ELISABETH HUBMANN Abstract Elisabeth is an organist, musicologist, and environmentalist active in Gen\u00e8ve, Amsterdam<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t<a class=\"elementor-post__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/simoneweil-denkkollektiv\/elisabeth-hubmann-geneve-organ-improvisations-in-response-to-simone-weils-les-lutins-du-feu-ca-1921-22\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Elisabeth Hubmann (Gen\u00e8ve): Organ improvisations in response to Simone Weil\u2019s \u201cLes Lutins du feu\u201d (ca. 1921\/22)\" tabindex=\"-1\" >\n\t\t\tMehr ...\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-post__meta-data\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-post-date\">\n\t\t\t24 August 2022\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-post-avatar\">\n\t\t\tNo Comments\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For activity to be passive, it must receive something from beyond itself; it must be in excess of itself. By the spiritual I mean this fact of experience in excess of voluntary effort, of which exercise is a part. This distinction, it seems to me, is crucial. To a large part, the confusion which surrounds &#8230; <a title=\"Elisabeth Hubmann (Gen\u00e8ve): Organ improvisations in response to Simone Weil\u2019s \u201cLes Lutins du feu\u201d (ca. 1921\/22)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www2.hu-berlin.de\/simoneweil-denkkollektiv\/elisabeth-hubmann-geneve-organ-improvisations-in-response-to-simone-weils-les-lutins-du-feu-ca-1921-22\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Elisabeth Hubmann (Gen\u00e8ve): Organ improvisations in response to Simone Weil\u2019s \u201cLes Lutins du feu\u201d (ca. 1921\/22)\">Mehr 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